. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . burned,and afterward swept clean with a broom oftwigs. When the housewife counts to bake bread, oak BAKING IN THE NEW OVEN 95 leaves are thrown into the oven to the depth of half aninch. The peel is then sprinkled with meal, and onthis is put the dough. Now one has only to thrust the peel inside theoven to where theoak leaves arespread, give it aquick twist, and,because of themeal, the doughwill slip off directlywhere one desiresto have it. Then the potsor pans in which are meats, can beshoved in. whereveris the greatest space, and the door
. Stephen of Philadelphia; a story of Penn's colony . burned,and afterward swept clean with a broom oftwigs. When the housewife counts to bake bread, oak BAKING IN THE NEW OVEN 95 leaves are thrown into the oven to the depth of half aninch. The peel is then sprinkled with meal, and onthis is put the dough. Now one has only to thrust the peel inside theoven to where theoak leaves arespread, give it aquick twist, and,because of themeal, the doughwill slip off directlywhere one desiresto have it. Then the potsor pans in which are meats, can beshoved in. whereveris the greatest space, and the door of the oven notonly closed, but banked up with the embers that havejust been taken from the inside. After that has been done, whatever is within mustof a necessity be cooked, if you leave the oven closedlong enough. It is a great convenience in any house,and I can but smile as I think of how mother putteredabout trying to cook first this and then that in theDutch oven, when now she can have everything underway at one time with little or no 96 STEPHEN OF PHILADELPHIA After the oven had been built, I was given thetask of making the shed to cover it, and this at a timewhen all was excitement in our town because of thegovernors being with us. It gives me ncflittle pleasure to say that I kept aboutmy work despite the merrymaking on every hand,until I had built for mother what she was pleased tosay was the neatest and most convenient room formaking ready the food, that could be found eitherin England or America. It was fortunate for me that I had kept sharp atmy tasks, otherwise they would not have been finishedon the day when William Penn had a meeting withall the savages who could be summoned from farand near. PENN PLANS TO BUY LAND FROM THE SAVAGES As I have already said, he counted to buy fromthem the land which had been paid to him by theking, and the savages were not only ready, but willing,to sell, as could be seen when they were come to-gether. There were no scowls
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